Yes, as I suggested earlier, part of the reason the Government may feel it can press down on junior doctors t&c is the availability of overseas trained but British medics. Yes it may lose some British trained medics to Australia, but there will be enough trained elsewhere to fill the gaps.
I think it is interesting that medical schools/hospitals like the Royal London and Nottingham are building links with places like Malta and Malaysia, perhaps aware that they will need to recruit from overseas, and so want to ensure quality by offering clinical experience in their hospitals. Also interesting is the warning on most (all?) medical school websites, that FYI posts cannot be guaranteed, presumably an acknowledgement that British trained graduates may well have to compete with overseas trained graduates for a limited number of places.
However students need to be cautious, and consider quality and track record, especially with the real possibility of a no vote in an EU referendum. Some overseas medical schools, in places like Malta, Ireland and Hungary are well established, but others appear to have relatively low entry requirements.
Parental pressure appears pretty common, at least where we are. Most shocking for DD was a London medical open day where she was the only one not accompanied by parents (or in some cases larger family groups), only parents asked questions, and there was no mention of anything other than academics. It was useful in that DD realised that though she wants to be a doctor, she needs balance and that for her the best way of coping both with medical school and beyond will be to have friends doing other things, and to keep up her extra curricular. Even if it means that her grades are "good enough" not starry.
I find it ironic that there is so much emphasis on diversity and access and jumping through lots of hoops, when in practice the next generation of doctors actually practicing probably wont be particuarly diverse, with an over-representation of those strongly motivated (or whose parents are strongly motivated) and who have the resources to fund study overseas. Still it provides a bit of a get out of jail free card for the Government and NHS, as there are almost certainly not enough training places in the UK. .